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After burning down an iconic MMO casino, Old School RuneScape spends 2 years crafting a new anti-gambling bomb because 'Deathmatching' was a huge source of real-world trading

Deathmatching is "majorly, if not always, linked to real world trading"

GamesRadar

Inspired by Pokemon Snap, MMO fan builds their own RuneScape Pokedex by spending 4 years tracking down over 500 players with Pokemon usernames worth billions of gold

Charizard is priceless in the Pokemon TCG, and also in RuneScape

GamesRadar

Old School RuneScape developers left mystified as players, whipped up into a religious fervour, demand that gaming's loudest mole-rat get even louder

Give me wailing or give me death.

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"Help us understand," pleads MMO dev as Old School RuneScape players vote on infamously loud monsters and decide they should be louder, actually

Old School RuneScape's Nail Beasts are basically a protected species now

GamesRadar

Old School RuneScape devs face loot-hungry MMO players after an endgame quest spits out worse items than an easy mob so profitable it became a bot farm

Back-to-back loot extremes spark confusion in OSRS

GamesRadar

'The repeated targeting of individual team members needs to stop': OldSchool Runescape devs firmly ask players to cool it over Tormented Demon loot tables

PC Gamer

"People could've made billions": MMO legend returns from 2-year hiatus to share a game-breaking Old School RuneScape bug so dangerous even a former dev is shocked

It's no Falador Massacre, but this could've been a disaster

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MMO dev explains why we rarely get to see games early following feedback on the first new skill in 17 years: "It doesn't look finished because it's not finished"

"It doesn't come together before really close to launch"

GamesRadar

Video game firms found to have broken own UK industry rules on loot boxes

Government criticised over decision to let companies self-regulate gambling-style features after expert finds numerous breaches

The Guardian - UK

RuneScape gets not one but two tabletop adaptations on the same day

I'm here for the "game-changing cakes."

PC Gamer

RuneScape's official Twitter account unbanned after proving that, no, the game wasn't secretly an 8-year-old child

I don't even get carded when I buy booze, anymore.

PC Gamer

Old School RuneScape players revolt after new big money owners say bots are fine, actually, devs furiously walk it back and say they banned 7 million bots last year

A quote from an anonymous source close to Jagex's new owners sent OSRS fans into overdrive.

PC Gamer

Jagex acquisition won’t lead to RuneScape’s business models changing, CEO confirms

Jagex CEO Phil Mansell reassured RuneScape players that "there are no intentions of changing our [games'] business models."

TechRadar

After 20 years and 5 corporate owners, RuneScape players joke past reported $1.1 billion buyout of MMO icon Jagex: "Time to pool our money, boys."

The studio tried to reassure fans that games would not be "compromised" with shady business practices

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RuneScape developer Jagex is on the verge of being acquired again, this time by the backers of the Six Nations rugby tournament in a deal worth $900 million

It would be the fourth buyout of Jagex within a decade.

PC Gamer

11 years in, Old School RuneScape's toaster graphics are about to look better than ever

An official HD mode is due, with an alpha planned "very soon."

GamesRadar

MMO player hits the lottery to become the second-ever person to claim a 1-in-100,000,000 drop in a staggering 7 years

This Old School RuneScape gem is one of the rarest MMO drops of all time

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10 years later, Old School RuneScape is still breaking player records through nonsense that no other MMO can match

A new League season and community shenanigans propel the senior MMO

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Old School RuneScape players upend a 16-year-old minigame when they realise the cops can't possibly arrest all of them

The game's devs say "Keep it going!"

GamesRadar

MMO devs give their blessing to an absurd exploit for a 16-year-old minigame, dedicate two themed worlds in its honor

The sq'irkin' don't never gotta stop

PC Gamer

MMO releases the sequel to an 18-year-old quest that features such rare drops the developer has to step in and reassure players: 'No need to put nan in the cage as the clock chimes midnight, just kill bosses'

After the developer said "they don't drop in the same way normal drops do", all bets were off.

GamesRadar

MMO dev reassures bamboozled players that mysterious new items are real, but only drop in a special new way

"What we can say for now is that they don't drop in the same way normal drops do..."

PC Gamer

Old School Runescape players were using a new bug to mass-murder each other and it got so bad the game had to be taken offline

A minor update introduced a major problem.

GamesRadar

OSRS devs answer our burning questions about Sailing, the MMO's first new skill in 17 years

Old School Runescape dev says "we've got to convince players we can be trusted to deliver"

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